On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:27:23 +0100, Richard Foley <Richard.Foley@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:03, Peter Scott wrote:
>> [Copied to advocacy list in a probably vain attempt.]
>>
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:25:24 +0100, demerphq wrote:
>> >
>> > This seems like something that should be handled by the donations to
>> > TPF (or some similar organization) by hiring a professional to do it
>> > right. Isnt this exactly why we have a donation fund? So that we can
>> > pay to get the stuff that we arent good at done properly by a
>> > professional?
>>
>> Wow, what he said. I was sharpening my keyboard to make the same
comment
>> when I read this. I've seen a little of how professional fundraisers
work
>> and they are *so* different from your average hacker. Not only do they
>> possess a charisma for communicating with moneybags that eludes most of
>> us, but their constant exposure to that work will likely lead them to
>> ideas that haven't occurred to us.
>>
> Hear hear - it's a point that's often overlooked. We're professional
> programmers for a reason and they're professional fundraisers for a
reason.
>
Perl really lacks better PR - especially towards business people ...
I also second the idea of hiring marketing professionals.
To give a better picture of that - recently I read an article on some
reputable site (can't remember which one is it - will try to find it).
In sum - author recommends that you stay away from Perl when you choose
wiki
systems. Of course (s)he latter recommends Twiki (which is done in Perl)
as a
good option.
The point is not that article author is not well informed - but that
people
outside of Perl community by default link Perl to being bad, old ... you
know
"the new COBOL" ...
We need (public relation****p) damage control! We need someone to lobby for
Perl.
All the other players in the fields (Ruby, PHP, Python) seem to have some
sort
of it.
I also noticed they have nice "powered by xxx" logos. I couldn't find
anything
pleasing for Perl. Those powered by modperl on apache site look nice -
http://perl.apache.org/about/link/linktous.html.
Something like that but
without
mod part ...
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